File 127 - Music in Krieghoff's Quebec : arrangements for voices and instrumental ensemble

4 ms. scores (8, 2, 3, 2, 8, 6, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 2, 2, 3, 1, 7 p.) : pencil, copies + parts : pencil, copies

Kathleen McMorrow (A2024-02)

File consists of manuscript scores and parts for arrangements by John Beckwith for the concert "Music in Krieghoff's Quebec" at the Art Gallery of Ontario (January-February 2000). The concert included the following songs, arranged for voices and various instrumental ensembles:

1. J'ai trop grand peur des loups (from the Ermantinger collection, 1830)
2. La Boiteuse (from the Hamel collection, 1850-) [copy of 1989 arrangement]
3. À la claire fontaine (Gagnon collection, 1865)
4. Tenaouiche, tenaga, ouich'ka! (Gagnon collection, 1865) [copy of manuscript arrangement]
5. Stadaconé / Ernest Gagnon (1865)
6. TIQ: Settled at last. We never tell a lie / Calixa Lavallée (1865)
7. Messe de Noël. Sanctus et Benedictus / Joseph-Julien Perrault (1860)
8. An sang qu'un Dieu va répandre / traditional, arr. Ernest Gagnon
9. Confie au plus tendre des pères / Laurent-Éduard Rivard (1862)
10. Nouvelle agréable / carol, arr. Ernest Gagnon
11. Dans cette étable / carol, arr. Ernest Gagnon
12. Quadrille Canadienne / Antoine Dessane (1854)
13. Marche de la St. Jean Baptiste / J.C. Brauneis II (1848)
14. Mermaid polka / Henri Prince (1856)
15. La Mère Canadienne / Antoine Dessane (1862)
16. L'Alouette / Charles Wugt Sabatier (1858)
17. La Huronne Célestin Lavigueur (1861)
18. The Widow. Smiling hope ; O trust my love / Calixa Lavallée (1882)

• English
• French

Text in English and French.

Many of the arrangements were re-used and revised from arrangements that John Beckwith created from concerts at the "Music at Sharon" series (1987 and 1989); see series C.